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Poll: Have You Incorporated Characters Into Your Personality?


wishsong-allanonI have often wondered, how much of the books I read as a child made their way into my personality? The wizard Ingold Inglorion? The orphan Harry Crew? The Druid Allanon? The leper Thomas Covenant? The last gunslinger Roland Deschain? Or the pig-keeper Taran?

How much have I incorporated during those reads? How much have you? Make the jump to read more, vote, and comment!

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Terry Brooks Reviews: The Games by Ted Kosmatka


GamesNew York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks is a voracious reader.

So when he reads a book he loves, he likes to tell people about it. He has been directly responsible for me reading some of the best books in the genre. He thinks he has found another one.

Make the jump to see his review of The Games by Ted Kosmatka!

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How Editors Juggle Anthologies


adams-armoredAs you may have heard here on Suvudu and around the internet(s), I am in the midst of putting together a fantasy anthology titled Unfettered with some of the best writers in the business contributing short stories.

But anthology editors leave interesting lives. Huge Award-nominated John Joseph Adams talks about it!

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Creating The Annotated Sword of Shannara: Part IV


brooks-annotatedswordIn October this year, The Annotated Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks will be published.

I’m excited for fantasy fans! Terry has given insight into the book that changed the industry when published. Here’s more about it, specifically my most recent role in its coming to bookstores!

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Ask Terry Brooks: May Edition


brooks-terryEvery month for more than ten years, bestselling author Terry Brooks has accepted questions from his fans via his website and answered five of them.

In that spirit, I thought it would be fun to post his questions and answers here, broadening the scope of questions that come into his website. Click through to find his answers from questions sent into the website in April 2012 and how to submit your own questions for Ask Terry Brooks!

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Suvudu Likes: 5/5/12


brooks-wardsukThere are some great sci-fi/fantasy bloggers out there, fans who are devoting a lot of time and energy into supporting authors and their readers. Variety is the spice of life, as they say, and with the menagerie of unique and very different individuals out there contributing, it produces a whole that is better than its parts.

Here is a list of what other bloggers on the internet(s) did in the last week—reviews, interviews, comments, giveaways, and the like.

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Interior Artwork: Wards of Faerie by Terry Brooks


brooks-wardsTerry Brooks and Del Rey Books are celebrating the 35th anniversary of The Sword of Shannara by giving this year’s book, Wards of Faerie, a full-color foldout!

Artist Todd Lockwood has finished his work on the piece and it is stunning. Click through to read Terry’s thoughts as well as find a link to a thumbnail of the art!

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The Emergence of the American Short Story


brooks-annotatedswordThe short story has a long, storied history. But that history largely did not come across the Atlantic Ocean when the United States was settled.

That is changing now though with the advent of eReaders. Here’s how!

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Ask Terry Brooks: April Post


brooks-terryEvery month for more than ten years, bestselling author Terry Brooks has accepted questions from his fans via his website and answered five of them.

In that spirit, I thought it would be fun to post his questions and answers here, broadening the scope of questions that come into his website. Click through to find his answers from questions sent into the website in March 2012 and how to submit your own questions for Ask Terry Brooks!

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What Would Be Your Dream Home Library?


hambly-timeI fell in love with fantasy when I was a teenager. I read a great many Del Rey books at that time. One of those early authors, Barbara Hambly, left an indelible impression upon me.

Through her writing, I discovered my own creative side. What was the first thing I did? I drew up the architectural plans for my own library. Here is how that happened! And what would you do given the same assignment?

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